[sinisterMage]

Totally fair question — most high-level languages do take care of memory for you, especially with garbage collection.

But in hosted scenarios like IronPython or W++ (where the language is layered on top of .NET), things can get trickier:

You're managing your own object model inside a host runtime.

If you're not careful, it's easy to create long-lived references (like global caches or circular structures) that the GC won’t clean up.

In IronPython's case, hosting decisions (like how objects interop with .NET classes) can leak unintentionally if lifecycle logic isn't airtight.

So yeah — you usually don't think about memory... unless you're writing the language